[Pvfs2-users] Modifying stripe size does not show

[Phil Carns]

Are you sure that you applied the patch correctly?  That fixes the 
problem when I try the same scenario here.

-Phil

Nirmal Thacker wrote:
> The patch did not help either. It brings up the same error.
> 
> Could there be more patch releases which I can try?
> 
> 
> Phil Carns wrote:
>> This was a bug in our older releases.  You can try applying this patch
>> to fix it if you are still stuck on 1.5.1:
>>
>> http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/rdiff/PVFS?csid=MAIN:slang:20070625220806&u&N
>>
>> -Phil
>>
>> Nirmal Thacker wrote:
>>> Phil:
>>>
>>> I did add the Distribution context to my pvfs2-fs.conf , and restarted
>>> the server nodes, and received an "Option cant be defined in that
>>> context" error.
>>> The error points to the Filesystem context, maybe indicating that I
>>> cannot declare the distribution sub-context here (?)
>>>
>>> I have attached the error and a copy of my pvfs2-fs.conf
>>>
>>> The error comes up when I create a storage space.
>>>
>>> [I have 4 storage servers and 1 MDS. I tried by reconfiguring storage
>>> and restarting the servers and the error persists. It also says that the
>>> host names must be consistent [see log] . Thats strange since otherwise,
>>> the servers start fine, without the Distribution context defined]
>>>
>>> Nirmal
>>>
>>> Phil Carns wrote:
>>>> Hi Nirmal,
>>>>
>>>> I think that you can use the same mechanisms to set distribution
>>>> parameters in 1.5.1 as in our newer releases.
>>>>
>>>> There is some information here about how to set the strip size at run
>>>> time for a particular directory (no need to recompile):
>>>>
>>>> http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/browse/PVFS/doc/pvfs2-tuning.tex?r=1.2#l208
>>>>
>>>> You can also set a default for the whole file system in your server
>>>> configuration file by adding a section that looks like this into your
>>>> <Filesystem> section:
>>>>
>>>>     <Distribution>
>>>>         Name simple_stripe
>>>>         Param strip_size
>>>>         Value 4194304
>>>>     </Distribution>
>>>>
>>>> -Phil
>>>>
>>>> Nirmal Thacker wrote:
>>>>> Hello
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using PVFS2-1.5.1 and as far as I know, to modify the default
>>>>> stripe size of PVFS2, I must modify the header
>>>>> include/pvfs2-dist-simple-stripe.h .
>>>>>
>>>>> Strangely , I did so and rebuilt the source, yet the pvfs2-viewdist
>>>>> still shows me the default striping for any new files created with the
>>>>> modified pvfs2 build!
>>>>>
>>>>> Nirmal
>>>>>
>>>>>
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